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CommDe Open House 2018

CommDe Open House 2018
Organized by CommDe's Student Union, and coinciding with CommDe Creative Walk 2018, this is an introduction to the programme for potential applicants. CommDe students will discuss their thesis exhibitions and explain the different aspects of studying at CommDe.

CommDe Open House 2018 takes place on the morning of Saturday, 19th June. Please register here.

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This is an intensive workshop open to CommDe students for free and on a first-come-first-served. 20 seats are available. Led by Santi Tonsukha who will guide participants through the processes and techniques of designing print materials. Santi is currently based in Bangkok further to living and working in London, Los Angeles and Mumbai. He was the design editor of Wallpaper magazine and works across many different disciplines with diverse clients. Santi is a graduate of the Royal College of Art and Imperial College London.

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Anders will lead students to explore their own creativity in generating characters and narratives. A series of exercises are offered, individual and collaborative and students will complete a short story by the workshop's end.

Anders Neilson is based in Portland and an award-winning artist and author of nine books of comics and visual narrative. He publishes and exhibits internationally. He most recently completed Big Questions, a 15-year long marathon of talking birds, nuclear eggs, nightmares and wandering.

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The literary works of Raymond Carver revived the North American short story in the 1980s. The author's minimal writing style captured the mundane lives of his characters and evokes profound imagery. In this open studio each studio chooses a short story from Carver's book Cathedral and transforms it into a graphic narrative that explores the limits of comics and experiments with storytelling techniques. Students learn about the building blocks of comics: storyboard, decoupage, character design, story rhythm, color, viewpoints and typography. The graphic narrative is eventually self-published.

Eva Cardon is based in Flanders, where she teaches. She is currently completing a PhD that explores the autobiographical history of the comic-book. Eva works under the pseudonym Ephameron and her works are published and exhibited internationally.

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CommDe Creative Walk 2018

CommDe Creative Walk 2018
CommDe thesis exhibition 'Reform' the Norm is opening on June 2 at 5pm and will run until June 10 2018.

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GAME JAM Competition

GAME JAM Competition
The Goethe Institute Thailand and CommDe are inviting game developers, programmers, artists, musicians, and other creative minds to get together at ART GAMES workshop and develop new computer games in a 48-hour Game Jam. A trip to Germany is to be won. The workshop runs from March 16-18 2018. Full information and application details here.

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GAMES AND POLITICS at CommDe-Design Center

GAMES AND POLITICS at CommDe-Design Center
An interactive exhibition presented by the Goethe Institute and Department of Industrial Design of Chulalongkorn University (CommDe) in cooperation with the Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. From March 17-April 12 2018. Full information here.

Opening Reception on January 18th, 18.00. The exhibition runs until February 18th 2018.

Future Tapped is the first edition of an exhibition of graduates since the programme was established almost a decade ago, and will continue in the future. CommDe graduates evolve their practices in manifold media: print, virtual and object. They tap the future for Thailand's creative industries.

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Screening of Dr. Juthamas Tangsantikul speaking at the Thai Film Archive

Screening of Dr. Juthamas Tangsantikul speaking at the Thai Film Archive
A recording of Assistant Prof. Dr. Juthamas Tangsantikul taking part in a panel to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the film The Country Hotel (1957) by Rattana Pestonji. At the Thai Film Archive on 15 September 2017.

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Din-D: A Multimedia Installation by Puvanai Dardarananda and Yimsmer

Din-D: A Multimedia Installation by Puvanai Dardarananda and Yimsmer
December 5-8, 2017 Opening Reception on December 5, 17.00-18.00 Design Center, Department of Industrial Design Faculty of Architecture, Chulalongkorn University

Southeast Asia University in collaboration with CommDe - the international programme in Communication Design - at Chulalongkorn University cordially invite you to Din-D, a multimedia installation by Puvanai Dardarananda, CommDe's Chairman. The installation was executed by Yimsmer, a design company, and initiated by Sermsin Samalapa, President of Southeast Asia University. It commemorates HM King Rama IX Bhumibol Adulyadej's life-long endeavours in improving the qualities of land and soil through his Royal Initiative Projects. Din-D transform data from Cornell University's archive on the subject with a combination of projected images, sounds and interactive media. The experience enables viewers to recognize HM King IX and is particularly aimed at Thailand's emergent generation.

The installation will open on the birthday of HM King Rama IX. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations (UN) have declared this day as World Soil Day.

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CommDe Graduate Wins Award

CommDe Graduate Wins Award
Panasann Pattanakulchai, class of 2016, won the Young Thai Artists Award 2017 for his photographic series that explores the domestic lives of migrant workers in Bangkok.